How about you don’t need to type your user id and password everytime your Windows Vista box boots up? I think that is so cool especially when there is no risk of having someone else meddle with your computer.

Chris Pirillo has written the following steps for it:

Microsoft Weblog wrote a while back (found here) about PC magazines’ 4 part series on customization and optimization Windows Vista.

The series is found below:

Customizing Windows Vista: Part 1
Customizing Windows Vista: Part 2
Optimizing Windows Vista: Part 1
Optimizing Windows Vista: Part 2

One of the coolest new features of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is the ability to create a Windows Vista Recovery Disk which allows you to run the most basic feature set of Windows Vista that can be used to correct problems and errors.

Below is the screenshot for the Windows Vista Recovery Disk taken from istartedsomething.

The downgrade path to Windows XP from Windows Vista used to be daunting. Fortunately, Lenovo who is the makers of IBM thinkpad is providing us with a guide and an XP disc to easily and effortlessly downgrade you PC from Windows Vista to Windows XP.

Do you need a hotfix? A hotfix is described as a single package which address a specific issue of the customer. Instead for waiting the service pack which contains all fixes, a hotfix should be able to solve a specific problem right away.

People new to SharePoint often ask how can they backup their SharePoint site. It is not as easy as a copy and paste keyboard stroke in windows explorer, but it isn’t any harder than learning how to create your first web part.

Have you wondered how to debug in .NET the event handler you deployed in a list? It could be tricky at first but debugging event handlers is no different from debugging ASP.Net codes.

How to debug Event Handler Features?

The cumbersome process of copying the path of a file or folder in Windows Vista is finally over.

If you are creating windows vista aero scheme, it would be great if you could design your own icons and most likely you would need vista aero tricks to come up with design as close as the Windows Vista aero standards.

If you plan to install SharePoint 2007 even without using Active Directory, you may do by creating the database tables manually and assigning the users in them to be used by SharePoint.

This post explains the steps for making this happen: